Turkey: MEAL Officer

Title : MEAL (Monitoring , Evaluation, Accountability & Learning ) Officer

Reporting Line: MEAL coordinator

Period of Contract: 6 months or more

Duty Place: Turkey, Gaziantep

Muzun for Humanitarian & Development (MHD) is a civil society and Non-for -profit organization registered in Turkey, Gaziantep since 2015. The NGO was founded by professional humanitarian workers engaged in the Syria response. We come from the communities affected by the conflict. We have set up this organization in order to support fellow Syrians with relief and non-relief assistance to maintain their under-pressured resilience and help them cope with the challenging conflict environment. In our work we focus on the most vulnerable including persons with special needs, children and women. As a grassroots organization, our work is community-led and therefore owned and sustainable.

JOB DUTIES:

M&E system development Support

• Collaborate closely with Program staff and MEAL staff in developing and establishing M&E systems that serve the needs of the overall programs.
• Address shortfalls in monitoring, evaluation and information management that affect program implementation.
• Contribute to program design to ensure adherence to MHD’s standards, including the use of standardized indicators and documentation methodologies.
• Support MEAL department in development of databases for all programs by using available technologies including EXCEL and ODK Collect
• Support programs in developing their indicator plans and indicator tracking sheets and follow-up with program staff on regular basis

Focalpoint for MEAL Assistant and Field Assistants (FAs).

• Communicate with MEAL Assistant and FAs on daily/weekly basis as needed regarding activities, security, location, information updates
• Develop work plans for and task manage FAs
• Debrief with FAs on regular basis according to debriefing guide
• Coordinate with MEAL Department to organize and conduct trainings for FAs
• Support M&E activities involving FAs, such as KII, FGD, post distribution monitoring, data quality audits, surveys/assessments, etc.
• Support compilation of feedback received from field assistants

Focal point for accountability across sites

• Develop and facilitate trainings and workshops for staff on accountability
• Develop complaints and response mechanism, including system for systematically storing,
• maintaining, and responding to feedback
• Integrate feedback from FAs into accountability mechanisms (CRM) across sectors
• Work with program teams to design, adapt, and implement other accountability mechanisms
• Compile overall accountability strategy in final document or report

Support for mobile data collection efforts

• Research data collection modalities including various software/hardware and data encryption options
• Support MEAL with data collection tool design and related efforts
• Support with training FAs and other enumerators on use of mobile phones
• Support with development and adherence to protocols on mobile data collection
• Support with survey design, logistics for survey enumeration, and debriefing with survey staff
• Use knowledge management platform developed on Google drive to communicate with FAs and maintain it .

Monitoring and Learning Activities

• Follow up and supervise FAs to collect quality monitoring check lists of programs to be conducted quarterly and produce a draft report

• Participate in a review meetings, workshops and capture lesson learned and innovative solutions

• conduct case studies and success stories

• Support any other needs of MEAL Department; including occasional data cleaning, data entry, data analysis

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in international relations, social sciences, economics, administration, or other related
• field
• Fluency in written and spoken English and Arabic
• Good report writing skills
• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English
• Experience in data collection and analysis via quantitative and qualitative tools surveys preferred
• High proficiency in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint required; experience with Access desirable
• Experience with data management and data analysis software (Stata, SPSS, Epi-Info, etc) desirable
• Experience of working with NGOs highly desirable
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in a multicultural setting
• Desire to learn, flexibility, willingness to ask questions
• Good time management skills, ability to multi-task and set priorities
• Adherence to MHD Code of Conduct and internationally accepted humanitarian principles

Applications for this position should be sent (by email only) to HR@Muzun.org with the title of Jop , the deadline is on 30th,March,2018